Quotes about completion

Johnnie Dent Jr. -

Success has no idle hands affords no legs at rest.

Vironika Tugaleva - The Love Mindset

When we stop looking for someone to complete us, we find completion in ourselves.

Faith Tigere -

I long for the days when I was One with the one who was the only one I could be One with.

Karl Pearson - The Grammar of Science

When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated with the rest, then the mission of science will be completed. What is this but saying that the task of science can never end till man ceases to be, till history is no longer made, and development itself ceases?

Ahmed Mostafa -

I held her like tomorrow would not come. It stitched me, if only for a second...

Daniel Ionson -

The closer one gets to the speed of light, the slower time travels. The exact thing is true when completing a book.

Zadie Smith -

It became clear that Keisha Blake could not start something without finishing it. If she climbed onto the boundary wall of Caldwell, she was compelled to walk the entire wall, no matter the obstructions in her path (beer cans, branches). This compulsion, applied to other fields, manifested itself as "intelligence." Every unknown word sent her to a dictionary--in search of something like "completion"--and every book led to another book, a process that, of course, could never be completed. This ro

Charles de Lint - Spiritwalk

Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could live beyond your sphere of being, that held in it far more potential than you ever realized you were imbuing in the work?

Johnnie Dent Jr. -

A dreamer must be discovered working or working on it or it is reduced to a wish.

Ashok Kallarakkal -

No job is complete until the selfie is posted.

Emily Thorne -

Sacrifice demands the surrender of things we cherish above all else. Only out of the agony of those loses can a new resolution be born. An undying devotion to a cause greater than one’s self, and a moral duty to see a journey through to its absolute completion.

Carolyn Parkhurst - The Dogs of Babel

The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses. They are allowed access to our most private moments. They are there when we think we are alone. Think of what they could tell us. They sit on the laps of presidents. They see acts of love and violence, quarrels and feuds, and the secret play of children. If they could tell us everything they have seen, all of the gaps of our lives would stitch themselves together.

Debasish Mridha -

Yearn to grow in the field of love and bliss not in the field of competition and contemplation.

Vironika Tugaleva - The Love Mindset

When we stop looking for someone to complete us... We find completion in ourselves.

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Remember no matter how fast you run, you can't be the winner if you don't finish. As someone said, to be the first to finish, you must finish first! Go, take the strike!

Erik Pevernagie -

New York is more than a state of mind. It is the completion of a dream. ( "New York at arm's length of desire" )

Annette Curtis Klause - Blood and Chocolate

He was raw and sharp and rich and throbbing with life. He was sweet blood after a long hunt. How could she have mistaken Aiden's kisses for this? They had been delicious and smooth like the brief comfort of chocolate, but they had never been enough.

Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching

Rushing into action, you fail.Trying to grasp things, you lose them.Forcing a project to completion,you ruin what was almost ripe.Therefore the Master takes actionby letting things take their course.He remains as calm at the end as at the beginning.He has nothing,thus has nothing to lose.What he desires is non-desire;what he learns is to unlearn.He simply reminds peopleof who they have always been.He cares about nothing but the Tao.Thus he can care for all things.

Farshad Asl -

Growth is the sum of small efforts repeated daily. Commit yourself to take 5 DAILY ACTIONS that would move your goal towards completion.

Sol Luckman - Snooze: A Story of Awakening

In the spirit of the Alpha and the Omega, in the way the Alpha was theOmega, and vice versa, he knew the beginning was also the end—and that the end was just another beginning.

C. Northcote Parkinson -

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

Pete Sanders - First Steps In Counselling: A Student's Companion for Basic Introductory Courses

It is in the nature of helping and counselling to be a process moving towards something rather than arriving at a state of completion.

Donald L. Hicks - Look into the stillness

Nature never rushes, yet everything gets done.

Tom Althouse - The Frowny Face Cow

We live on a world where if you run straight away, without turning, you return to your point of origin. So much energy can be saved and time, by dealing with the point, at its origin, that would make us run.

Julien Smith - The Flinch

No one has a problem with the first mile of a journey. Even an infant could do fine for a while. But it isn't the start that matters. It's the finish line.

Sunday Adelaja -

Even if you know where you are going and what problems you have to solve, you may only know the nearest tasks and you may not understand completely all of your tasks

Sheila Moon - Knee-Deep in Thunder

You have done well," Grandfather said. "We thank you.""We were afraid sometimes," Jetsam replied."Good." Grandfather's eyes smiled. "That means you had the courage to keep trying.

Criss Jami - Healology

After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy.

Dennis Sharpe - Distant Thunder

The things this man does to me are beyond what I feel should be possible. Butterflies. Fucking butterflies. Damn him.

Betty Friedan -

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.

Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go

What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.

Mary Zimmerman - Metamorphoses

A: The soul wanders in the dark, until it finds love. And so, wherever our love goes, there we find our soul.Q: It always happens?A: If we're lucky. And if we let ourselves be blind. Q: Instead of watching out?A: Instead of always watching out.

Andrew Boyd - Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe

We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly

Maggie Stiefvater - Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.

James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Criss Jami - Electric Personality

Every time I create something, whether an idea or a work of art, initially, its supposed completion seems absolutely perfect to me. However the more I think about it, stare it down, the more it marinates in my soul over the hours, days, and weeks, the more flaws I start to find in it; and finally, the more I'm pressed to continue enhancing it. It essentially turns out that whatever thing a flawed and imperfect, human eye once thought was amazing begins to appear quite wretched. This is why, eter

Toba Beta - Master of Stupidity

Hoax needed to complete the premises of truth.

Criss Jami - Healology

Without Christ a people may always have the freedom to do, but never the power to complete.

Miya Yamanouchi - Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

Female competition is when you are with a guy you like and you look around, see a girl who is prettier than you standing nearby, and think to yourself: "I wish she wasn't here." -This is what happens when you attach your identity and sense of worth to the amount of male attention you receive.

Fred Lowe Soper - Building the Health Bridge: Selections from the Works of Fred L. Soper

Eradication represents a complete change of philosophy and a recognition of the equal rights of all citizens to protection from infection, no matter where they live. Eradication, by its very nature, is public health with a conscience. The public health control officer can sleep tranquilly, salving his conscience with the thought that most of his responsibility has been discharged – that he did not have enough money to do any more. The eradicator knows that his success is not measured by what has

Brian Cook - The Thin Blue Line: Perception is Deception

Instead of casting aspersions at the process, why don’t you redirect your energy towards something more advantageous, like finally completing the Program!

Erica Cook -

I’m not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it.

Budd Schulberg -

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

Susan Meissner - A Fall of Marigolds

The person who completes your life, is not so much the person who shares all the years of your existence, but rather, the person who made your life worth living -- no matter how long or short a time you are given to spend with them.

Johnnie Dent Jr. -

Always take failure as an opinion never as an option.

Farshad Asl - and Clarity

Vision leads to proper planning and proper planning leads to successful completion.

John Wooden -

Don't mistake activity with achievement.